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Telleen's Bandit uses Raccoon fur which helps this fly create a sleek profile and great action in the water as it imitates a minnow or sculpin. It can be fished on the swing in the slower water in winter months and actively stripped through the quicker riffles in summer for the more aggressive trout that tend to reside there. Recipe Dai Riki 710 #4 Hook Real Eyes - 7/32" nickel/red Rabbit strips variant gold Chartreuse angel hair raccoon zonker fur brown thread

Fred Telleen ties up his Spring Breaker Ice Out Leech. With a plummeting bead, jig hook and flat head pin combination, this fly is balanced perfectly horizontal when dropped straight down from a float tube or boat. Recipe Daiichi Jig Hook Size 6 Plummeting Tungsten Bead FL Orange Size 3.8mm Simi-Seal Canadian Olive Rusty Brown & Olive Brown Marabou Flat Head Pin

Dustin ties his variation of Coffey's Sparkle Minnow. It is productive anywhere you like throwing big, flashy baitfish. You will need a dubbing brush tool. We're tying this fly in pearl and silver, but you can vary things up by trying gold and pearl, which is ideal for cutthroat. Recipe TMC #300 sz2 Streamer Hook 1/4" Real Eyes in Nickle/Pearl White & Gray Maribou Tan UV Crystal Flash Silver Ice Dub Dubbing Brush Tool .025 Lead Wire

The Sleeze Burger is a fly I came up with when I moved to Great Falls. It competes with the Rapala. Guys were fishing the Fire Tiger Rapala at Holter like it was going out of style and so I figured I could match it in a fly. We have caught bass, carp, walleye, catfish, rainbows and browns all on this fly. It is more of a warm water fly, imitating a perch but works well on trout too. I've netted perch on more than one occasion belly up but still kicking below Craig. Tell me a big brown won't smack that. With the neon colors, it will make them hit out of aggression. Works great in off colored water! I like to tie it on the leader with a loop and a sink tip line when I am fishing it. It makes it juke, dive and flips that belly up to makes it look like it's wounded or it's jolting after small insects. The key to tying this fly and hooking fis...

The Skiddish Smolt was designed as an Alaskan smolt, but it has found much favor on many trout waters and has been a big producer on the Missouri River for several years now. You can adjust the color scheme to suit your needs, but the keys are the heavy cone head with lots of flash. A great trigger streamer when fish are aggressively feeding on smaller fish. Recipe Dai-Riki #700 streamer hook - size 4 210 Ultra Thread - white Brass cone head - large - nickel Lead wire .035 V-rib - small - red (You can substitute with micro tubing) Flashabou tinsel flash - white + silver Ostrich herl Ice Dub UV pearl

The Rag Man Sculpin was designed to fish faster, freestone type waters, but has proven itself on many tailwaters as well. It is a larger articulated pattern with a heavy head. This design not only gives the fly S-swim action in the water, but also creates a nice jigging movement when stripped or twitched. Don't let the somewhat simple tie fool you on its effectiveness. Lots of good things merge into one on this heavy hitting sculpin pattern. Try a variety of sizes and colors to match the sculpins in your favorite waters. Recipe Back fly: Hook - mustad 3366 #2 olive brown marabou stacked senyo's lazor dub sculpin olive and palmered uv polar chenille olive brown Front fly Hook - mustad 3366 #1/0 large dark sculpin helmet barred olive bunny fur Berkely 20lb steelon nylon coated wire Two small spinner beads

KK’s first major streamer creation takes a traditional wooly bugger patterns and pours attitude on it. Probably the single trickiest part to tying this fly is learning how to spin the rabbit hair for the head. Recipe Size 4 Dai-Riki 4X Long Marabou Damsel Green Yellow Marabou Dubmbell eyes Zapagap Flourescent Orange Wire Ginger Schlappin Bonefish Tan Krystal Flahs Tan Rubber Legs MFC 210 Ultra Thread Bunny Strips Gold

Small and sparse for winter. Streamers move fish, but sometimes they get plucky on the big stuff. This is the remedy. Recipe Mustad Streamer Limerick Size 10 Spirit River Real-Eyes Plus 5/32" Nickel+Red Sparkly Purple Chenille Size 2 Black Wooly Bugger Marabou Senyo's Laser Dub

This week, Denver at the North 40 Fly Shop in Great Falls ties a Cone Head JJ Special, a tried and true bug popular all over the world. This pattern, which replicated a small bait fish or crayfish can be stripped like a streamer or dead drifted. Recipe TMC 5262 Size 6 Rusty Brown UTC 140 Krystal Flash Med Brown Yellow Marabou Rusty Brown Marabou Med Brown Chenille Med Rubber Legs Yellow Med Copper Wire Grizzly Hackle

A confidence fly for fishing rainbows. It is extremely versatile and can be fished in a variety of ways. Use this fly at ice off fishing still waters under and indicator. When water temps are cold, fish prefer a catatonic (no movement) presentation. Run a chironomid under it, or a damsel nymph. As water temps warm up, it works good on a slow erratic retrieve. In rivers, you can run it dead drift on a nymph rig or swing it. This fly fishes good all season long and across a variety of species.Hook walleye, bass, rainbows, steelhead, browns, and tiger trout on this fly. Most productive when there are natural eggs in the water. Add in a black saddle hackle palmered up the body for faster retrieves of for swinging. Recipe Gamakatsu T10 6H tapered salmon hook UTC 140 Fl. Pink Thread Black Bunny Zonker Strip Black Saddle Hackle .025 Lead Wire ...

This is a pike and musky fly that I have been working on this spring, with good results. The idea behind the fly is to have a high contrast fly that pushes a decent amount of water while still being castable. With a double hook, weighted head, and articulation the fly swims well. It is designed to trigger strikes via both visual and lateral line stimulation. It can be tied in red/white, black/white, chartreuse/white, or really any color combo you want. Fish this on a sinking line along weed beds and drop offs. It can be fished on a floating line as well with a longer leader for presentations in the top three feet of the water column. Recipe Gamakatsu B10S UV White Buck Tail Red Buck Tail Grizzly Hackle Red Grizzly Hackle Pearl Flashabou Arctic Fox Tail Fish Skull Heads UTC 140 Red Dai Riki 4x Long Streamer

Denver Rathbun at the North 40 Fly Shop in Great Falls, MT is on the vise tying his articulated craft fur streamer. Both hooks in this fly are weighted with lead wire to get it deep, fast. The version he is tying for the video is in yellow and gray, but colors can be substituted for any application or species representation. Recipe Gamakatsu B10S Stinger Hook Size #2 Craft fur in any two colors MFC Medium Fish Eyes 210 Ultra Thread .035 Lead Wire 30# Fire Line Medium Brass Cone Head Medium Size Bead